This essay is adapted from Merrick Morton’s “La Bamba: A Visual History,” published by Hat & Beard Press. “Dance!! Dance!! Dance!! to the music of the Silhouettes Band!!” read the handbill. The ...

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At just 17 years old, San Fernando Valley native and son of Sonoran immigrants Richard Valenzuela — better known as Ritchie Valens — changed the course of rock ’n’ roll with the release of breakout ...

Ritchie Valens was just 17 years old when he changed the course of pop music in the late 1950s. As the first Mexican-American hitmaker in the U.S., he laid the groundwork for Chicano rock and beyond, ...

“Una nueva mirada cinematográfica sobre sus eternos diecisiete años solo puede sumar a su leyenda inmortal”, declaró el Luis Valdez, director y guionista de la cinta original Por Uriel Monterrubio La ...

Phillips portrayed the musician in the 1987 biopic about his life and career ...

"When he sang, he carried the dreams of a million brown kids who just wanted to belong - not as Americans but as humans.

McLean, who wrote the folk-rock hit "American Pie" about the singers' deaths, and Connie, Ritchie's sister, share how one fateful day changed their lives forever Hulton Archive/Getty Feb. 3, 1959, has ...

Para muchos, Valens tenía potencial de estrella. Pero solo alcanzó a grabar un par de canciones antes de morir en un accidente, en California. Imagen de archivo del cantante Ritchie Valens. Álbum ...

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